Call it the Super Bowl loser’s curse or just bad football; either way, the Chiefs are the eighth runner-up to stumble out of the gate at 0-2. And they are now staring at a cold truth in the face. They dropped back-to-back games, putting their Super Bowl hopes on the line before Week 3. The last time they stumbled so hard was way back in 2014, Andy Reid’s second season and three years before Patrick Mahomes stepped into the NFL spotlight.

Plenty of teams have recovered from rough starts, but very few have gone from 0-2 all the way to lifting the Lombardi Trophy. The most famous exceptions are the 1993 Cowboys, 2001 Patriots, and 2007 Giants . The Chiefs’ challenge is obvious: unless they solve a handful of issues quickly, their season could slip toward an early exit.

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